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These have cross-bred in some of the lakes and they have had to make certain lakes free of ordinary carp to stop the crucians cross-breeding.
A chimeric animal would be fundamentally different from a hybrid, which is created by cross-breeding two species.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, farmers were cross-breeding corn to increase crop yields and to get a better-tasting ear of corn.
People have been genetically modifying plants and animals for centuries by cross-breeding animals and plants that can naturally breed together.
The legislation would also ban cross-breeding to develop more aggressive animals.
They are in demand for cross-breeding with Thoroughbreds to produce 3-day eventers, jumpers and dressage horses.
And they are experimenting with cross-breeding, hoping to create a hybrid fish for farming.
If GM oilseed rape is grown practically anywhere in the UK, cross-breeding will be almost inevitable, it claims.
Did cross-breeding with European bees make them more dangerous or did the cross-breeding perhaps even dilute the aggressiveness?
In the past, we did our engineering through cross-breeding and lots of trial and error.
But it is now an endangered species and could well become extinct through cross-breeding.
By cross-breeding with the wild salmon, they cause genetic pollution by decreasing the fitness of the wild population.
Recent cross-breeding with commercial breeds may have contributed to the admixture.
Individual breeds were highlighted, but cross-breeding was also practiced and hybrid or 'synthetic' breeds specifically developed.
Another issue of cross-breeding is that some traditional breed products are sold as mixed ancestry.
They are mongrel species, happily cross-breeding to make identification very difficult.
Manipulating is cross-breeding, or setting up death matches with centipedes.
The pluot is a fruit created through cross-breeding plums and apricots in a three-to-one ratio.
The tint of the spots must be accentuated, neither pale nor dark or even brown, which is a sign of cross-breeding.
Through painstaking cross-breeding, Saunders developed a strain of wheat that would mature before the annual onset of freezing temperatures.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And again, almost all the facts in question are borrowed from cross-breeding between the Whites and other races.
Both the wool and the mutton have been improved by cross-breeding with good stock.
But the Japanese had, so far as can be ascertained, little advantage from cross-breeding.
But the product of a hundred years of cross-breeding was a splendid type of citizenship.
The cause of that lies very likely in the nutrition of the young fry, and perhaps, also, partly in cross-breeding.
This cross-breeding of families in the remote provinces might be made the subject of many instructive reflections.
They will, without any cross-breeding, occasionally produce white stock that are very pretty, and equally good for laying.
There appears to be much promise for nut improvement by cross-breeding to regroup desired qualities.
In addition, researchers have observed cross-breeding taking place between native and nonnative species of dandelion.
The cross-breeding of stock was another subject he had taken up.
Some of the loveliest dogs I know are the results of cross-breeding.
In the animal kingdom the mule is a common example of this cross-breeding.
Though both crops belong to the diverse Cucumis genus, this is the first successful cross-breeding by conventional methods within the 32-member species.
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